Obama Uses Waiver to Delay Moving U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem

The Times of Israel reports: US President Barack Obama on Thursday renewed a presidential waiver, again delaying plans to relocate the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for another six months.

In keeping with every other presidential administration over the last 20 years, a White House statement cited “national security interests” in waiving Congress’s 1995 decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and transfer its embassy there.

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Every president since Bill Clinton has cited national security in presidential waivers signed every six months that have postponed the embassy’s relocation.